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Winter in Jaipur is mild , yet to feel cold water shower is a gratitude bath , a bath to express thanks and harmony with body and water , cold shower is a therapy to enjoy winter . water is taste of divine and calorie wise also zero like the energy equation of entire cosmos zero .

light a small oil lamp in the home temple and just to witness a miracle , a light beam of the small oil lamp also moving at 300000 Kilometer per second or 176000 miles per second , it wick flickering with the little wind is a dance of divine , just to witness this dance is pure meditation , meditation is a science to live in present .

Now time to be in the garden and feel the music of wind , wind is the origin of music and listening wind and working out breathing exercises makes to understand that breath is neither connected nor disconnected with us ,

As I lift my hand to look at the blue sky in prayer , the eternal canvas where birds fly , light and darkness plays through the sun , moon , and clouds , creativity at it’s best .

Is not the creativity an art to cross timeline and jump into totality of timelessness ?

Kitchen is a spiritual center , where smell of wonderful cooking of earth elements , what a range of fruits and vegetables , and if you cook or make dishes like worship of work or like a prayer , eat like even every bite is absolute pleasure .

To be with nature ( 5 elements fire, water , wind , earth and sky ) is to be with ourselves , be ourselves is to be with oneself , and to be with oneself is to be with divine itself .

travel is a very fine form of education …… last week I was in travel and staying with a friend and while staying in the guest room made a resolution ……

that will make that space better than when I started staying there ….. so before leaving the room ……cleaned the room and bathroom ….. thanked the room ….. the bed …. the bathroom ….the space ….. apart from thanking my friend .

are we going to leave better earth for our future generations ?

many time playing with grand children think about this ……. let us promise our self that we will try and keep this earth better than we got it …..

this week met magician Ashok Bhandari ….. apart from magic he has a magic of music …… heard him play harmonica and it was divine so he is my artist of 21 week 2012 …… you can listen music on facebook page …..

“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” ― Leonard Bernstein

Saturday is date to update my music wordpress blog and face book page ….. music is part and parcel of cosmic existence and with sensitive ear and soul we can appreciate this music which many refer as OM , ALLAH , GOD or name of their choice ….

Prince Akeem of Zamundei turns 21. Soon he must marry a woman who has never seen, because this is the will of his father. But Prince violates the family traditions and goes to America to find a woman to be the love of his life. He reaches the Queens neighborhood of New York and is determined to find a woman to respect her intelligence and her way of being. And how does not want to fall in love with the title and his money he is easily disguised in a simple man, takes a job and start searching…..

life is a film where we all are in a lead role ……. our roles may be different but our Goal is one and it is same for all whether atheist or theist …… and that is eternal happiness …… the taste we all know …..but most of the time we do not find it …..and with many many times to find it ….and fails to find it we make statement like ……..

“God is dead”, occurring in several of Nietzsche’s works (notably in The Gay Science), has become one of his best-known remarks. On the basis of it, most commentators regard Nietzsche as an atheist…..

and many remains theist in hope to find this happiness ……

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

― Friedrich Nietzsche

in our cosmos every atom dance …… so is all god and goddess of Hinduism dance …… dance happens on the music of cosmos ……and on song of creation …..and eternal sound OM which is in built in every atOM ……some call it ALLAH , some as God….. and everyone has a freedom to name it ……

so who is theist and who is atheist …….

in my opinion who is not happy dancing in this cosmic dance of life is ATHEIST ……and who is happy dancing in this cosmic dance is THEIST ……. in India we define God as SAT CHIT ANAND …….source of eternal happiness ……so if we are happy ….. it is a true prayer and thanks to life …… thanks to life is real spirituality ….

so have a dance today and everyday ……. outside as well as inside …… love is a vibration of divine on which life dances in happiness …..

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” ― Plato

to appreciate music one has to be a good listener ……and listening need silence inside …… but listening music brings also silence inside …..music is an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color and combined with silence it adds a dimension of timelessness …… dimension of timelessness is dimension of eternal happiness and that dimension of music is abode of real God ….and in words of great musician …..

There is also a strong connection between music and mathematics as energy equation of atom as well as entire cosmos is zero so may be cosmos is dance of zero …… eternity dancing on eternity like football……

this morning reading this quote ……. made me remember the time when one will hear Bob Marley so listened one of his best number ……. Is this love ……

I want to love you and treat you right,I want to love you every day and every night,

many time I wonder ……where is the question of right and wrong …..where is the question of day and night …….. love is divine and beyond time ……it is a bliss rain …… sensitive heart feels it ….. insensitive body just get wet ……

in my personal opinion ……sensitivity is degree of life ……insensitivity is degree of death ……

love is a sensitivity of 360 degree ……. a dimension of wholeness ….where two hearts vibrate in timeless frequency but in time …

God also is a vibration of timeless frequency and when ever anybody feels it ….. expression will be some thing like this ….

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”

many time wonder it is almost 900 years before ……. rumi created these master pieces ……and these master pieces still carry that timelessness …….

All across the earth …… even art is in the center of earth ……womb of all creations …… there are master pieces of art spread in every direction and every corner of the world ……so creativity is our basic nature and if we want to give it timelessness ….make work as worship of God ….. in all totality …

In Indian art most of the early arts are not signed ……Caves of Ajanta and Ellora is not signed and yet even after thousands of years after we go there to feel that timelessness and beauty …..it happens only when we forget our ego and let God sing in us ….so be sensitive ….become ear to God’s music …..listen the wind listen the vibrations of nature ….. feel the dance of OM in every atom…

and zero is the balance between positive charged protons and negative charged electron in atom …light and darkness…..silence and sound…..kinetic and static …..masculine and feminine……body and soul….oneness of duality is zero…..

so in oneness all senses can perceive God….

but as we cannot talk continous for 24 hours so also cannot keep our eyes open for 24 hours continously so God cannot be told and seen without oneness….

but as touch , sensitiviness and hearing sense is active 24 hours so it is easier to listen to the music of God and also we can feel it all the time…

That is infinite, this is infinite…..From That infinite this infinite comes……From That infinite……. this infinite removed or added……Infinite remains infinite.

OmPeace! Peace! Peace!

Sound (nada) is believed to be the heart of the process of creation. In Hinduism, the sacred syllable Om embodies the essence of the universe – it is the “hum” of the atoms and the music of the spheres – and sound in general represents the primal energy that holds the material world together.Nada Brahma is a primal word in Indian spirituality, a primal word that also refers to India’s great classical music.

The origin of Indian music is enshrined in beautiful tales and legends. It is common Hindu practice to attribute the beginning of a branch of learning to a divine origin through Lord Shiva, also called Nataraja, is supposed to be the creator of Sangita, and his mystic dance symbolizes the rhythmic motion of the universe.

He transmitted the knowledge of cosmic dance to the rishi Bharata, through one of his ganas. Tandu. The dance is called tandava and Bharata thus became the first teacher of music to men, and even to apsaras, the heavenly dancers.

Similarly, the rishi Narada, who is depicted as endlessly moving about the universe playing on his vina (lute) and singing, is believed to be another primeval teacher of music.

Under the name of Gandharava Veda, a general theory of sound with its metaphysics and physics appears to have been known to the ancient Hindus. From such summaries as have survived till modern times, it seems that the properties of sound, not only in different musical forms and systems but also in physics, medicine, and magic.

The hymns of the Rig Veda contain the earliest examples of words set to music, and by the time of the Sama Veda a complicated system of chanting had been developed.

By the time of the Yajur Veda, a variety of professional musicians had appeared, such as lute players, drummers, flute players, and conch blowers.”

Since the most ancient times, music in India has been practiced as a spiritual science and art, a means to enlightenment. Sangita, which originally meant drama, music and dance, was closely associated with religion and philosophy.

At first it was inextricably interwoven with the ritualistic and devotional side of religious life. The recital and chant of mantras has been an essential element of vedic ritual throughout the centuries.

According to Indian philosophy, the ultimate goal of human existence is moksha, liberation of the atman from the life-cycle, or spiritual enlightenment; and nadopasana (literally, the worship of sound) is taught as an important means for teaching this goal. The highest musical experience is ananda, the “divine bliss.” This devotional approach to music is a significant feature of Indian culture.

Indian music is art nearest to life. That is why Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1856-1939) a 1923 Nobel Laureate in Literature, has aptly described Indian music “not an art but life itself.”

ram0ram footnote …… Saturday is my date to update my music blog on wordpress and on facebook ….. so thought give you little insight of Indian music …..

Like this:

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” ― Albert Einstein

how great this spiritual scientist Albert Einstein was ….

music is harmony of time and timeless …..harmony of left and right brain ….. harmony is vibrating at the same frequency as of nature …… harmony is harmony within for a flow of life outside …..

many time people ask why Indian music has raga system which corresponds with every hour of day and night ?…..

Sun and Moon movements make temperature of day and night in every season of the year and produce flow of air waves at a particular wave length and vibrations ……

as two eyes vision merge to bring the dimension of depth so is Indian raga music system …..so the vibrations of the artist performance match with the vibrations of air to produce a stereo phonic divine depth experience of timelessness …..

this experience of this timelessness is the purpose of all world music ….and thanks God ….. Indian classical music is truly a music of timelessness …..so being my date to update my music page on face book and wordpress blog …….Music = harmony with God…. link

what ever music I post on my page has to have this dimension of timelessness ……. and love music from across the world music ….I am a world music citizen …..and my religion is music only ….but before that not to forget ….

See how beautifully….. God has added one more day in our life…….life is a celebrations of everyday as birthday….Happy Birthday to everyone …….with all the good wishes and greetings …..

love all

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so start this morning with this clip features a rendition of Basant Mukhari, a morning raga. This is the alap (solo) part of the performance. The concert was recorded on March 9th, 1991 in Bern Switzerland. Krishnaji is accompanied on the tabla by Jatindra Thakur, and on tanpura by Gunther Becker…… link on youtube …

Indian classical music is monophonic in nature and based around a single melody line, which is played over a fixed drone. The performance is based melodically on particular ragas and rhythmically on talas. Because of the focus on exploring the raga, and a journey of timeless in time so this painting is of Raga Todi

Todi, also known as Mian-ki-Todi (Miyan-ki-Thodi), is a very common morning rag….

so we will start of journey …..

of this most beautiful tradition of harmony with God …..

listening to some of the finest unfolding this Raga …. here is the link on youtube….

Indian classical music is so spiritual and so much scientific ……. raga is a style to play a instrument or vocal singing in harmony with vibrations of air or frequency of air at that particular time so to bring a timeless dimension in the time music ….. play this any time but in morning is just divine ……